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UW’s Charles Angevine and Rachel Watson Receive James C. Hurst Awards

March 31, 2014

Charles Angevine, associate professor in the Department of
Mathematics, and Rachel Watson, associate lecturer in the Department of
Molecular Biology, were named the 2013-14 recipients of the University of
Wyoming’ James C. Hurst Each Student-A Person Award.

UW’s parent organization, Cowboy Parents, established the
award to recognize members of UW's faculty or staff who “go above and beyond
their normal responsibilities to personalize the student experience and who
create a warm and caring environment for students.”

The award honors James C. Hurst, UW's vice president for
student affairs from 1981-2000, who is remembered for his warm and caring
demeanor, his wisdom and his dedication to student success.

A student who took Angevine’s calculus class as a freshman
praised his positive influence on students.

“His class lectures are superb and his delivery of topics
was so elaborate and adequate that I hardly faced any difficulty in
comprehending them,” the student wrote. “He would always be well prepared. We
also had some time to talk about philosophical, scientific and often political
aspects in the development of mathematics ranging from some simple analysis to
hugely complicated phenomena. This made my student-teacher relationship much
stronger.”

A first-year student described how Watson “goes above and
beyond the call of duty to personalize the classroom experience for every
student.”

“On the first day of class, she asks every student to put
their names and the things they love on a note card. By the next week, she has
everything memorized and uses each student's individual interests to relate to
microbiology and current research topics in the field and in the classroom,” the
student wrote. “She inspires me to not only learn the material, but to also
apply it to everything in the world around me.”